Migration Guide
Migrate from Shogun
to Section Store.
An honest read on whether the switch fits your store, what stays the same, what changes, the concrete migration path — and the case for staying put if that's actually the right call.
The honest case
Why move from Shogun?
Shogun is enterprise-grade and excellent for what it does — page building with built-in A/B testing — but the enterprise pricing matches the enterprise positioning. Many stores running Shogun realised after a year that they use the page-builder canvas for only a handful of high-value pages and the A/B testing on even fewer; everywhere else, they're paying enterprise rates for what amounts to section work. Section Store covers the section work natively (Shopify 2.0 theme app extension, theme-token inheritance), so most stores can keep Shogun for the A/B testing surface and move everyday sections to Section Store at a fraction of the cost.
What stays the same
- Your existing Shogun pages and A/B tests continue to run.
- Your Shogun analytics integrations stay intact.
- Your Shopify theme, products, collections, and cart flow are unchanged.
- Your other Shopify Apps (Klaviyo, Recharge, etc.) keep composing with both apps cleanly.
What changes
- Everyday catalogue sections move to native Shopify 2.0 (Section Store) — no third-party runtime, theme-token inheritance by default.
- Page-speed budget on Section-Store-built pages improves measurably.
- Your monthly cost likely drops significantly — Shogun's enterprise pricing reflects the A/B-testing surface, not section-level work.
- Shogun stays for the pages where A/B testing is the actual job; Section Store handles the rest.
Migration path
The concrete steps.
- 1
Install Section Store alongside Shogun
Both apps coexist cleanly. Free tier on Section Store for evaluation.
- 2
Audit your Shogun usage: which pages run A/B tests, which are just static section work
The static pages are the migration candidates — they don't need Shogun's enterprise surface.
- 3
Rebuild static pages using Section Store sections in the theme editor
Hero, comparison, trust badges, FAQ, customer stories, footer — most patterns have Section Store equivalents.
- 4
Keep Shogun for the pages where A/B testing actively earns its keep
Don't migrate pages where the A/B testing surface is core to the workflow.
- 5
Review Shogun pricing tier after migration
Once you've narrowed Shogun to its true use case, the lower pricing tier often fits — significant cost savings.
When NOT to switch
If A/B testing is core to your conversion workflow and Shogun's integrated experimentation is the reason you run it, keep Shogun for those pages. Section Store doesn't replace the A/B testing surface; it's a section library, not an experimentation platform. The right pattern is to use both deliberately: Shogun where its strength applies, Section Store everywhere else.
FAQ
About the migration.
Ready to migrate?
Free to install. Try Section Store alongside Shogun and migrate page-by-page on your timeline.